This may seem very paradoxical to some, because so dissonant and dissentient from the vulgar, yea almost universal and inveterate opinion and practice of the world, that hitherto hath not been so precise in the matter of magistracy.
We see then as to that part of the testimony, they were not dissonant to the witness of the present reproached sufferers.
The dissonant are those places in which the first sound uttered that is carried up high, strikes against solid bodies above, and, being driven back, checks as it sinks to the bottom the rise of the succeeding sound.
Thy dissonant harsh bray of joy would be, Than warbled melodies that soothe to rest The aching of pale Fashion's vacant breast!
A beautiful dissonant rhythm, always symphonic coulant longours de source; an exasperated vehemence and a continual desire of novelty penetrated and informed by a severely classical spirit--that is my reading of this composition.
The beautiful, dissonant rhythm of that composition is like a page of Wagner--the figures crushed into the right of the canvas, the left filled up with a fragment of marble table running in sharp perspective into the foreground.
They were taller and bulkier than the Cambrians, and were speaking a dissonant English jargon.
As I was standing in the middle of one of the busiest streets I suddenly heard a loud and dissonant gabbling, and glancing around beheld a number of wild-looking people, male and female.
Our joss-sticks fumed on the still air, monks waved censers, and blasts of dissonant music woke the semi-subterranean echoes.
So at Hundar, as everywhere else, the elders came out to meet us and cut the apricot branches away on our road, and the silver horns of the gonpo above brayed a dissonant welcome.
Of disagreeable visage, he said these harsh words in a broken anddissonant voice.
An intelligent man should disregard an abusive language who resembles, after all, only a Tittibha uttering dissonant cries.
The place resounded with the loud crowing of cocks and hens and the dissonant bray of asses.
The dissonant D sharp (or E flat) is not resolved in its own instrument, the violoncelli, but is taken up by the English horn, and by it resolved in the next bar.
A very peculiar colouring is imparted to the first chord, partly by the very dissonant G (afterwards G flat), partly by the minor third of the chord.
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings 5 Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.
But when he carried the same rigid exclusiveness of attention to the stage business, and wilful blindness and oblivion of everything before the curtain into his comedy, it produced a harsh and dissonant effect.
The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.
No Russian whose dissonantconsonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
If the dissonant note is also the highest note, it acquires from that position a fifth degree of intensity.
It may happen that the dissonant note appearing in a rising phrase is repeated; by reason of this repetition it would receive a sixth degree of intensity.
We may possibly find a dissonant note in the ascending phrase, with a repeated culminating note.
If an ascending phrase encounters no repeated and no dissonant note it is progressive, and the culminating note is the most intense.
Finally, if the dissonant note is at the same time culminating and repeated, it has seven degrees of intensity.
Leporello feels, indeed, that Elvira is in the right, but dares not oppose his master, and so introduces no dissonant tone into the strongly marked character of this scene.
But Jerome's new presumption, so dissonant from his former meekness, suggested still deeper apprehensions.
When the dissonant schools forsook the heights of metaphysic and cosmology to devote themselves to moral culture, an inevitable tendency to eclecticism, to a harmony of moral theory, set in.
As I was standing in the middle of one of the business streets I suddenly heard a loud and dissonant gabbling, and glancing around beheld a number of wild-looking people, male and female.
It was dissonant enough to my ear, but I fancy it would have driven a sensitive Italian to distraction.
In the development it reaches a vigorous, rough, almost dissonant climax, as of bitter defiance and fierce scorn of the world and its trammels.
I was still more astonished at her fine ear, with which (away from the piano) she recognises the intervals of the most intricate and full dissonant chords which one strikes, and names the notes of which they consist in their sequence.
Yet this dissonant E flat may be said to be the emotional key-note of the whole poem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissonant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
